Base of Operations: Tai-Pen, Laiguo;formerly a shack in the mountains
of North Korea;Post-World War II
era

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery#16/3 (June,
1954)

Powers/Abilities: Husu Ko was completely mad, but he
still possessed a good deal of cunning. He knew how to utilize different
types of poisons and was armed with a knife.

History: (Journey into Mystery#16/3) - Husu Ko lived
for years as a hermit in North Korea. One day the Mairavian Secret Police
showed up at his cottage and drafted him into a spy mission. Ko was chosen
to spy on Tai-Pen because he resembled that village's local idiot Gow Tuh,
and thus his presence in the village would go undetected. The Secret Police's
psychiatrists put him through a battery of tests to teach him to look, act
and think like an idiot. Once Husu Ko replaced Gow Tuh he was truly mad,
no longer feeling responsible for his actions. He killed any Mairavian agents
he caught stranded in Tai-Pen and began sending erroneous intelligence to
the Secret Police. When the Secret Police came to Tai-Pen to check on him
he drugged and murdered them.

Comments: Created by an unnamed writer and Al
Eadeh.

This story was reprinted in Tomb of Darkness#10.

The Marvel Atlasís entry for Korea confirms this story as 616.--David A. Zuckerman

Village idiot of Tai-Pen. The Mairavian Secret Police murdered
him, and put Husu Ko in his place.

--Journey into Mystery I#16/3

Mairavian Secret Police

They needed a spy in the village of Tai-Pen, so they recruited
Hosu Ko and put him in the place of that town's local idiot Gow Tuh. The
intelligence Husu Ko sent them led to disastrous campaigns, so they returned
to Tai-Pen to see what the problem was. The now insane Husu Ko drugged and
murdered them.